kalpol
@kalpol@lemmy.ca
- Comment on LOTR: The fellowship of the ring. The game that people and history forgot. 2 weeks ago:
Ive got the original box, CD and docs. I should break it out and see if it runs on dosbox. As I recall they used some Bakshi clips in it.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Not too bad with LyX. Get templates and modify them. It is a learning curve but entirely doable.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I got through school and could work just fine now with Calc. I’m sure it breaks when you get fancy but not that many people get that fancy.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I swear typesetting your papers is worth half a grade point at least. Then once you find Zotero and realize it will automagically handle your citations and you have auto biblios and cites working in LyX…life changing, absolutely.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Some places are killing the web interface entirely and going app-only.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
Daily Mail is British
- Comment on Monkeys on the Interstate 4 weeks ago:
Oh man Ernest Seton Thompson. I read Wild Animals I Have Known when I was like 7 and it stuck with me.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 4 weeks ago:
I got some doordasher with a typoed email who is apparently constantly driving under the influence for doordasher because I keep getting reminders that that’s against Doordash policy
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
Only with love
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 4 weeks ago:
Here’s the serious advice: whenever you have to think about it like this, don’t do it.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
Opensuse still over here … Just being a computer.
Gave my mom a machine with Mint, havent heard a peep out of her.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Are you harvesting vote data with this comment
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 5 weeks ago:
It is so bad. The passenger can’t even fix the nav, at least not in the Chevy I just rented.
- Comment on Are you so young that you have never been in a car with one of these? 5 weeks ago:
I had a 70 Olds 98 with the Rocket 455. You could literally hear the gas pouring into the dinner-plate sized carburetor when you floored it. Had it for two or three days and the jankt wiring caught fire and it burned up. Probably for the best really.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 month ago:
Does it run lineage, because that is the only way I’ll touch Samsung’s abysmal OS ever again
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 month ago:
Something something Vegemite sandwich
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 month ago:
Also California
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 month ago:
California, Utah, Texas all have laws now requiring age verification to use an app store
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
Soldered in there :) also max 8 GB memory. I only paid like $30 for this box including the $10 for four used drives, I’m not expecting it to run Crysis
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
Encryption slows it down a lot. It’s just a Turion II
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
I’ve got a N40L running TrueNAS. It is slow for mass transfers but at about 40-60mbps transfer speeds it is plenty fast for file usage (jellyfin libraries etc.) Right now it’s just a secondary but it is quiet and uses little power. You can get 3.5 to 2.5 adapters and use ssds for even quieter use.
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
Having a separate machine as a NAS is good, running TrueNAS or XigmaNAS. You can segregate your backups from your daily use, you can have automated tasks run, etc.
Machine wise, I’m gonna try out a Beelink with nvme slots. Right now I’m using a Proliant microserver. Don’t get one with a hardware RAID card as you want to be able to use zfs. But otherwise they sell pretty cheap on Ebay.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
Well AT&T banned the (better) international models from their network a while back. They work fine. Just banned.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 1 month ago:
This is more or less how FCIX got started
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
They’re pretty well known here for low quality flashy vehicles, with premiums for luxury not quality.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
I had not. And for free?? I shall explore it.
- Comment on Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July 2 months ago:
I was on the fence about it but this random advice from the Internet pushed me over. Thanks!
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
Supreme Commander is good. It is the closest modern-ish game to Total Annihilation that I’ve seen.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
Yes, second Talos Principal, it is excellent and the soundtrack too.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 2 months ago:
We are, Batman, we are.
I VPN to my network for it.